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The primary strength of the country is still the highly qualified and creative human capital, thanks to its world-standard education system.

• Hungary’s active labor force of about 4.1 million is highly educated and skilled
• All diplomas with at least one language examination and computer skills.  90% of the students speak English, second most popular is German, followed by French

Hungarian employees are seen as flexible, service oriented, highly motivated and very efficient; they are open-minded and keen to learn.

 

The largest IT faculties in Hungary

Budapest

• Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics
  Number of students enrolled at the IT Faculty: 8,000

 

• Eötvös Lóránd University, Budapest:, Faculty of informatics
  Number of students enrolled at the IT Faculty:3,000

 

Szeged

• University of Szeged, Faculty of Informatics
  Number of students enrolled at the IT Faculty:2,000

 

Debrecen

• University of Debrecen, Faculty of informatics
  Number of students enrolled at the IT Faculty:2,000

 

Pécs

• University of Pécs, Institute of Mathematics anc Information Technolog
  Number of IT students:1,800

 

Miskolc

• University of Miskolc, Institute of informatics
  Number of IT students:1,300

 

Veszprém

• Pannon University, Faculty of information technology
  Number of students enrolled at the IT Faculty: 1,300 

  

 

 

 

Co-operation  between Industry and academia

Successful co-operation between multinational firms and universities

• Infopark, Budapest

            Budapest University of Technology and Economics, ELTE University of Natural Sciences, IBM, Hewlett Packard, Panasonic

• Innovation and Knowledge Centre, Budapest

            Budapest University of Technology and Economics, and 9 important IT companies

• Digital Community Centre, Miskolc

            Miskolc University, Hewlett Packard

• Research and Training Program, Szeged

            Szeged University, Tata Consultancy

• eScience Knowledge Centre, Budapest

            ELTE University of Natural Sciences, Delta Eletronik, Econet, ESRI, MiltuRáció

• Oracle Competency Center, Budapest

                Budapest Technical College

• CISCO Networking  Academy Programme, Budapest

            Budapest Technical College, University of Szeged, Pécs, Veszprém

• SAP Competency Centre

            Budapest Technical College

• SUN Java and Solaris Certification

 

Major companies involved in R&D in the sector:

 

• Siemens - Siemens's Sysdata is Hungary's largest software house.

• Ericsson: R&D related to telephone exchanges.

• Nokia: Three R&D divisions in Hungary.

• Tata: European R&D centre.

• SAP: established its R&D Centre in Budapest in 2005.